Top 200 Rachel Van Dyken Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “And it made me wonder if sometimes the greatest loss you ever feel is something that nobody will see when they look at you.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

102. “My mom was actually so concerned with my chocolate addiction when I was little that she had to repeatedly tell me that if a nice young man or woman offered me candy I had to scream at the top of my lungs.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

103. “Never ask a ninja if she can jump – it’s degrading.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

104. “Because anger has too many faces, too many masks. This type of anger is the kind you don’t recognize until it’s too late.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

105. “It’s in the fight that you prove your worth.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

106. “It wasn’t that it had been too long without a girl. It was that it’d been a lifetime without the right one.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

107. “I know you guys have a past. But can you leavve it there? So I can be your future?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

108. “That’s stupid.” I laughed into his chest. “Boys can’t save girls.” “You’re right.” He kissed my temple. “It’s the other way around.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

109. “Pain. Pain makes life beautiful, because if we never had pain, we’d never be forced to grow.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

110. “When’s dinner ready?” Serena bounced into the room, literally, her head bobbing from left to right. Maybe that’s how girls like her built up more brain cells. They shook the air, and the pressure between their ears exploded, making tiny little brain-cell babies.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

111. “Life,” Max said, spreading his arms wide, “is like a box of chocolates.” I rolled my eyes. “I think I know how this ends.” “You buy the box because you think you want variety, but if you’re really honest with your greedy little self, all you really want are the caramel ones. But they don’t sell chocolates that way, so you do what everyone else does. You follow the crowd and try ones you know you’re going to hate. Why?” I swallowed. “Because you’re trying to find the caramel ones.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

112. “I’m talking about a different type of madness. The kind that follows you into your dreams, only to haunt you when you’re awake. A madness that sucks joy out of every good thing in life and makes you feel guilty about smiling.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

113. “Midnight’s the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.”

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114. “I’m so marrying him for his wine. Don’t judge me. Girls have needs.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

115. “Gabi’s face fell as if I’d just told her Santa and the Easter bunny got together and ate Nemo and the dog from Up. I.”

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116. “Boys are told since they’re little that pretty things are good. Pretty things equal happy things. So when we grow up and see a shiny pretty thing, we’re drawn like moths to a flame. We keep flying toward the light until it’s too late. You know, like that Sleeping Beauty chick with the spinning wheel?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

117. “A lights-off girl? Hell, no. You’re a spotlight girl. You just need to stop looking through your eyes and use mine.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

118. “I wasn’t one of those girls who got tiny hunger pangs when it was time to eat, then took a few sips of water, burped, wiped my mouth, and announced I was full. Hell, no. Carbs. Give. Me. Carbs. Give me protein. Give me chocolate and I’ll be your best friend.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

119. “Funny how words that are supposed to make people happy kind of make you want to punch a tree like Chuck Norris.”

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120. “Because no matter how damn bad I wanted to be the guy sharing her present, I’d lost that opportunity the minute I walked away in her past.”

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121. “Kessen groaned, then silently wondered if she should download the e-reader application for her phone she could pretend to be texting but be reading instead. It might look odd for her to be staring at her phone for long periods of time.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

122. “You’re beautiful, Genesis.” I swallowed, placing my hands on the table in front of her. “Immortals would fight wars over you, and not just your face or your hair or the way your smile penetrates to someone’s very soul – but because you’re good.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

123. “He hated singing other people’s songs. But he was singing some of my favorites...”

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124. “Just because you’re blood doesn’t mean I would hesitate to pull this trigger. My love for Tracey trumps my love for you- always. While I appreciate what you did tonight, I can’t seem to get over this sinking feeling that you’ve been just waiting for an opportunity this whole time, and I’ve been bind as sin while you swept in.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

125. “Sometimes pain, especially that of a broken heart, is best forgotten.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

126. “Had to pee his pants for a role, and when they tried to attach the pouch to him so that it would look real,, he shouted, ‘No, I do all my own stunts. I got this.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

127. “Please tell me that you’ll do that to me in bed sometime. I love a good... tackle.”

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128. “I briefly closed my eyes and imagined him in a Barbie minivan hoping to expel the way his masculinity made me want to strip down to nothing and throw caution to the wind.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

129. “Denial happens when you realize it shouldn’t be you, that even if your brain connected the dots, it isn’t yet your time. The lovely little memories of your life start to play on repeat in your head – the moments you should have done something but didn’t, the things you’ll never say, the things you’ll never do.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

130. “You want a guy to fight. You want him to be willing to go to battle for you. Don’t for one second envy a situation you know nothing about. Instead, be at peace with where you’re at in life and know that when the right time comes, it will happen. And when it happens, it’s going to be hard, and you’re going to have to ask yourself if it’s worth it.”

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131. “Months ago, I’d painted him as the dragon. Never once did I imagine he was the shining knight the entire time.”

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132. “Good looking? Check. Brilliant? Check. Rich? Check. Possible sociopath? Double check. Great. I was dining with Ted Bundy.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

133. “Coffee,” I said boldly. “Some people need it in order to function, but being who you are, I wasn’t sure if you actually needed anything other than blood and the souls of virgins to make it through the day, so I took a gamble.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

134. “What greater love than taking the sins of those you care for and putting them on your own shoulders?”

— Rachel Van Dyken

135. “It was that it’d been a lifetime without the right one.”

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136. “A man without a destination isn’t lost... ” She shrugged. “He’s just exploring.”

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137. “She groaned again, and really, I wondered, in that moment, would death be worth it? Was a lifetime of friendship with Nixon that meaningless that I would just toss it away for one more chance with this girl?”

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138. “My body is giving up. But my soul is a fighter, so when I leave this earth, I want you to remember that even though my body’s broken, gone, dust, my soul’s free.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

139. “I’d just single handedly given the love of my life to my best friend – on a silver platter, with a shiny bow attached.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

140. “Lisa, if I could take that hurt from you and carry it for the rest of my life, I would. I know that’s not how life works, but know I’d do it in an instant. If I could take all that guilt and shame? There would be no hesitation, but because I can’t, at least let me hold your hand while you walk through it.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

141. “Boots, it’s college. We’re segregated regardless, whether it be by major or class. This is just the way things are here. It keeps everyone safe.”

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142. “It was petrifying to know that another human being held the keys to your heart and soul. Helpless. It left you defenseless, because the control shifted into another person’s hands, and you had to decide just how trustworthy those hands were. Only it didn’t matter, because in the end, if the hands dropped the key, if they messed up – even once – your heart was already lost, never to be unlocked again.”

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143. “Yeah, you can cook better than your wife, read historical romance, and, oh wait, I’m sorry. Do you even remember where you left your balls? Or did you even have them in the first place.”

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144. “Knowing that what’s in your head might not be right – but not having any idea how to fix it.”

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145. “Big money always equals big messes that you’ll eventually be blamed for. They offer you a lot of money because what idiot says no to something like fifty grand? But trust me, it’s rare for a new associate to be able to spend all that money – especially when he’s dead. You’ll be collateral damage. And I hate collateral damage.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

146. “I don’t deserve her.” I cleared my throat. “But I want her anyways.”

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147. “Aw, baby, that’s like turning the key to an engine and then deciding not to drive... it’s just... cruel to the car.”

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148. “A day ago I was worried he’d look the other way if a car was barreling toward me. Now... well, now it felt like he would do anything to keep me close – almost as if he’d lost me before and knew what it felt like to be without me. But that was crazy. Clearly I’d never been kissed like that before, because my mind was conjuring up all sorts of crazy stories. I needed to stop reading so much.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

149. “The minute our lips touched, those brief seconds you saved me, touched me, joined with me. For those measly seconds – seconds of living a lifetime of a million lonely seconds – I was complete.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

150. “Seek and you’ll find.”

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